Foxglove

imagne thinking NFR is Lana's most mature album with her most clever songwriting HAHAHAHAHAHA. this is what you get when you buy your taste at Target

imagine being rich and famous to the point that all you have to do for "work" is create beautiful art - and being too lazy to even do that. honestly id rather her just not do anything or keep it to herself. bc it feels like a slap in the face to everyone who actually works hard doing shit they dont wanna do just to survive, who dont even have the time theyd like to devote to their art, but keep trying anyway. she's like "ha ha yeah i made it, im rich and famous, i can just do nothing but barely observe ab how the world (cough, not really the world, just LA) is burning but still not do anything about it".. then has the gall to act like shes doing a lot of good for the world or something

idk, it's not as much ab what her aesthetic is as much as it is ab how it's executed. Lana has always mixed styles that dont necessarily go together, but it worked a lot better in the past. BTD: Old Hollywood glamour / hip hop tinges / 4th of July Paradise: sepia western / road trip realness / California palm trees UV: lost in suburbia / sad acid trip / old money Florida HM: European vacation / cult vibes / 20s jazz LFL: flower power / space explorers / techno-apocalypse / ruined peaches & black beaches NFR is serving surfing & boats / piano balladry / Laurel Canyon teas / Walmart witchcraft / comic book style / neon green vibes / being too rich for the cops to apprehend you / wasting perfectly good sandwiches and slurpees even LFL had a more beautiful style than NFR in my opinion. I for one appreciated the 60s flower child vibe juxtaposed against space and technology even if i didn't really get the Hollywood sign thing. it's not ab Old Hollywood, it's ab beautiful and meaningful style. NFR is just kinda bland

someone pls tell this to Lana herself so she doesnt have to keep googling her song lyrics onstage at least with venice bitch, the "same thing happening again and again over and over" thing made a little sense with the long drawn out song and lyrics that literally say "over and over honey over and over" while we watch the same old traffic moving over and over. this just doesnt match the tone at tf all. truly a shame and a waste.

@ seriously, footage of a live performance is such a classic music video move, and i think thatd be way better than whatever is happening here. like shes giving us rich girls throwing shit at cops and somehow not getting arrested for assault or gunned down? talking on the phone in a parking lot with facial expressions not matching the emotion of the song? like, she cant even be bothered to lip sync in time with the lyrics. i know im kinda a hater but like, cmon lana

inb4 "Lana doesnt give a fuck about you! Lana doesnt owe you anything! You will take what you get and you will praise her for it or you take your opinion out to the farthest dumpster at a Jack In The Box in the outskirts LA where it belongs!" but for real its like, hon, you have the most (undeserved) acclaimed album of the entire year and possibly decade, and we get this joke? why put so much effort into the animations for such a pointless video? why even film it? just sing it for the babies on the tourlyfe and let them film it for you.

Lana's spoken word album coming for all of us like

so nervous for Lana to wear that headdress again... it wasn't a good look the first time around. i think bringing attention and money to indigenous people is good, but i am so worried about how Lana plans to do that. hoping she proves me wrong.

this happened to me with MIA. when her album AIM was about to be released i went back and listened to all her albums before and got a full immersive experience that really changed my entire life. and to get back on topic before i get another warning point - i think NFR references Lana's older work a lot. "liquor off the top shelf" "drink lime green" (diet mountain dew) "serial killer" etc. she started this in LFL with "its not just a video game". and i wonder if its like Lana looking back at herself or Lana looking at what she now represents to the general public as a mainstream artist. is she running out of material and just rehashing the old shit that brought her success or? idk HM is still fresh tho. fave Lana album hands down. talk about a magnum opus

ooooh this makes me wish i was just now getting into Lana. i never thought about this. everyone who is just now discovering Lana gets to go back and listen to her past albums and that's got to be a magnificent experience. i started listening after Born To Die came out so now ive heard her older albums a million times and it would be so much better if they were still fresh D:

ok yes i am glad Lana is finally getting recognition. BUT i am disappointed that it's recognition for her new, basic, toned down, publicly accessible aesthetic and not the glorious masterpiece trilogy of Born To Die, Ultraviolence, and Honeymoon. but it's whatever. Even boring Lana is more interesting than most new artists these days (including everyone else nominated for the Grammys (except Lil Nas X who should win (I used to like Lizzo till she fucked with that Postmates driver (Ariana has always sucked))) soooooo

soooo everyone endlessly repeating the same shite ab how NFR is Lana's "magnum opus" and swooning over mediocre Lana choons are coming for people sharing critical opinions of NFR based in actual music critique with valid reasoning? the hypocrisy is more pronounced than Lizzy Grant's life. seriously theres posts on every fucking page repeating the same thing trying to shut up anyone who doesnt see NFR in a purely positive sycophantic light. that's more annoying than a differing opinion with interesting reasoning to back it up. anyway, has the music video leaked yet? ah yes, critics are always right and mass public opinion is always good. that's why Donald Trump is president, Taylor Swift is a pop icon, Vincent Van Gogh never got recognized till he died, Jesus was murdered by a mob, the Tories are destroying the UK through public support, Nick Drake was never popular in his lifetime, etc etc etc, right?? Some people will never get it

Honeymoon has this hypnotic feel to the entire album. Like the songs themselves are the tip of a massive iceberg lurking beneath the surface. NFR feels like it's all out on the surface with not as much depth to me

this alternate version of How to Disappear is amazing, i cant believe this leaked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLf0-lro8X8

HTD is def a christmas song. let's not forget it comes directly after Cinnamon Girl (cinnamon is the official spice of christmastime)

she might as well just call it White Lives Matter and stop beating around the bush

how dare you. take this back immediately and burn your computer. now THIS could be a magnum opus idk you but i love you bb. your opinion is invaluable on this forum, and perhaps more importantly, objectively correct. to all of the Jacking Antonoff stans -- how can anyone assert that someone who has dated Lena Dunham has any sort of taste worth respecting? js.

banned for fall leaves when it's clearly winter time

banned for not being a 100% Lana sycophant

why tf, of all tracks on NFR - including such decent songs as California, Fuh Ih I Luh Yuh, Venice Bitch, Cinnamon Girl, Happiness is a Butterfly, Mariners Apartment Complex, hell even the Greatest - does the title track get all this attention? I have to be honest: It seems like people just didn't really have the time to listen to the whole album but some higher ups at these music publications decided this was gonna be Lana's year back in February and they just picked the first track because its title is most recognizable (as also being the album title) to laud and applaud... Is it just me?

goddamn it Lana

criminally underrated masterpiece. i feel like the reason Honeymoon doesn't get more recognition is bc it leaned all the way in to slow song acid trip realness and the best songs on it arent radio/hit friendly (like all of Lana's best songs). if critics' opinions and chart ratings mean so much, why is a shitty dance remix of Summertime Sadness Lana's most played single!?!? Justice for HM, TLY, TBD, Religion, ugh just the whole damn flawless perfect album. NFR wishes. LFL not mentioned lol

i mean i did kinda go off on one of her posts repeatedly where she was posing outside the beverly hills hotel owned by the sultan of brunei who quite literally wants to kill the gays. thank you idk why Lana's music / artist's journey affects me like this but i feel very connected to whatever message she has ended up spreading. also the endless Lanaboards NFR drama is the only thing keeping this thread alive, everyone pls keep arguing. im so bored

highlights of NFR era: long ass wait and confusion between when it was announced and when we got it most simplistic album yet pre-release thread purgatory Lana going to church looking straight outta brainwashing cult camp matcha addiction when skirtsandsuits blocked me bc i said money cant buy substance and that she wanted to kill the gays insta saddie culture a masterpiece? enduring hype? yall they sell this album at fucking walmart right next to Lover. Lana is not the next Joni Mitchell

im not upset, i just dont know what else to talk about, i dont know why im a lana del rey fan. i just have a lot of feelings